Exhibition Program
Currently showing
Elliat Rich: Mythica Ignota
03 Oct - 15 Dec 2024
Through a deep-conceptual and value-driven philosophy, Alice Springs designer Elliat Rich taps into ancient and future ways of seeing the world. Mythica Ignota uses mythology as a framework to nest scientific observation and more-than-human orientated values with artefact and narrative.
Jeffrey Sarmiento: Island Hopping
03 Oct - 15 Dec 2024
Island Hopping embodies Jeffrey Sarmiento’s transnational identity as a Filipino diasporic artist. Blending traditional glassblowing with printmaking and digital fabrication, Sarmiento visualises the complexities of cultural hybridity, showing how identities evolve through the intersection of different influences.
Hanging by a Thread: Mosaics for Afghan Women
22 Aug - 22 Oct 2024
Part of the Hanging by a Thread project, this project aims to raise awareness of the plight of Afghan women and girls and involves over 1,200 experienced and amateur mosaic artists from 46 countries.
Past Exhibitions 2024
Robert Fielding: NYARU
09 May - 21 Jul 2024
Robert Fielding is a contemporary artist of Pakistani, Afghan, Western Arrernte and Yankunytjatjara descent, who lives in Mimili Community in the remote Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands.
Nicholas Burridge: Built Geologies
13 Jan - 25 Feb 2024
Built Geologies is inspired by terraforming, a concept which literally translates to “Earth-shaping”.
Rosalind Lemoh: Told. Retold. Untold.
07 Mar - 28 Apr 2024
Born in Sierra Leone and based in Gundaroo, New South Wales, Rosalind Lemoh’s artistic practice deeply examines identity within the Australian context.
Cobi Cockburn: Pink Moon
01 Aug - 22 Sep 2024
Cobi Cockburn is a celebrated contemporary artist, who uses glass, light, and line as her medium. Pink Moon marks a departure from her established palette and uses colour as a metaphor for the human experience of being and feeling.
2023 Exhibition Program
Net Worth
12 Jan - 26 Feb 2023
Net Worth brings together the works of emerging artists Louis Grant, Jessica Murtagh, Shirley Jianzhen Wu and Madisyn Zabel. They explore concepts of identity, societal stereotypes, and technology overlayed with history and craftsmanship engrained in glassmaking.
Tom Rowney: Adventurine Spirit
09 Mar - 07 May 2023
Canberra Glassworks presents an engaging selection of recent works by glass artist Tom Rowney.
Lucy Simpson: Baayangalibiyaay
18 May - 21 Jul 2023
An exhibition of new works that explores the story of materiality and memory which looks to the glassmaking process to record, absorb, reflect and transform its body as a means by which to translate great periods of upheaval and environmental crisis across river landscapes.
Lisa Sammut: a circular logic
23 Jul - 08 Oct 2023
a circular logic is an installation activated by time and space. Lisa Sammut creates immersive installations that offer the viewer the chance to experience and encounter something magical. These are spaces for deep reflection where nothing else seems to exist.
Zoe Brand: WHAT GAVE YOU THAT IDEA
23 Jul - 08 Oct 2023
New works in glass by Zoe Brand explores human interactions through phrases that can be read or misread, and how quickly things can be interpreted or misinterpreted.
MEMPHIS NOW
19 Oct to 16 Dec 2023
This co-curated group show featuring works by Judi Elliot, Drew Spangenberg, April Phillips, Kate Benazi and Gibson Karlo draws on the visually extravagant design movement that was derived by the Memphis Group.